“My home is my castle,” says the famous proverb. But for such a reliable construction you need long time, significant costs, extensive experience.
We propose to start with “building” (this will be drawing) a small house. Let's look at how to quickly draw a house with a pencil step by step for children, so that the task can be completed easily and interestingly. And for adults, such drawing is a great opportunity to return a little to childhood.
What tools will be needed to draw the house of our dreams, you ask? Just a pencil and a ruler initial stage. What else you will need, you will find out when you complete all the steps.
So, let's take these steps step by step.
From this article you will learn
Step 1
We are planning a future house.
First, use a ruler and pencil to carefully and evenly draw a rectangle. A little later we will “attach” other elements to it. Then we divide it into two halves. For example, one half of the house is the living room, and the other is the kitchen. It all depends on your desire, because you plan your future home yourself.
At the bottom of our house we draw a low rectangle for the future foundation, which we will also change soon.
Step 2
Draw the roof and windows.
Draw with a pencil sides roof and draw identical parallel lines on it. To make our building look beautiful, we need to draw windows.
To do this, draw two rectangles with jumpers in the half of the house you have chosen. You can choose small or large windows, square or oval at the top. You choose the shape and size according to your taste and discretion.
Agree, when we do everything step by step, it turns out beautifully and neatly. Although the shape already resembles a dwelling, let’s move on to the next step. What's the next step? Of course, the door!
Step 3
We add doors and a chimney step by step.
Now you need to draw the doors in the other, remaining half. Don't forget about the door handle. It’s easier to create it using a ruler to make a small square. A little more complicated - a small circle.
It will resemble the shape of a door handle. And for those who are ready to try harder, there is another option for a door handle that resembles a knocker. All you need here is patience and accuracy.
After this, we will draw a chimney on the roof of your house with a pencil. As you see fit, place it on the right or left.
And finally, the final stage - we decorate the resulting home. After all, comfort and coziness, even if only in the drawing, pleases our eyes.
Now let’s practice being a designer. Surely, you already guessed what we are talking about. We will decorate all the finished elements of our “construction”. This kind of drawing is a real space for your imagination!
Step 4
Draw the foundation of your house with a pencil, dividing the rectangle from the bottom into cells. The parallel lines on the roof can be divided into alternating squares: the result is something similar to tiles. Instead of square tiles, we draw round lines at the bottom. It will turn out beautiful that way too!
You can paint curtains and even flower pots on the windows of your house. And the curling smoke from the chimney will make you think of hospitable hosts. Of course, you will need to put in a little more effort and diligence. But your home will turn out beautiful and unique!
Step 5
For those who really love to draw.
We color the house with colored pencils, paints, and felt-tip pens. Near it you can draw a green lawn with beautiful flowers, tall trees, blue sky with bright sunshine or whatever you like.
Your house, drawn in pencil step by step, is ready! We hope that this kind of drawing is a real pleasure for children!
In which we learned basic house painting skills. However, there was such a big flow useful information, that I decided to make this a full-fledged lesson. This allowed me to include another additional subject to draw - a luxurious cottage with a multi-pitched roof as practical task. You will learn how to draw more complex houses.
1. Draw a simple house from the previous 12th lesson.
2. Using the SW direction to construct the reference line, draw a line earth's surface for the left section of the house.
3. Keep your gaze SW of the guide line. Now draw a line in the SW direction to form the top of the wall.
4. Draw a vertical line for the near side of the house and the bottom left edge towards the NW.
5. That line you just drew is now the NW guide. Use it to paint the top of the wall.
6. Draw a vertical line for the far wall. Place an anchor point in the middle of the bottom edge of the wall.
7. Draw a vertical reference line from this point to define the peak of the roof.
8. Draw the top of the roof, making sure that the near edges are noticeably larger than the far ones. Complete the roof with a line in the NE direction. Erase all excess.
9. Using the already drawn lines in the NW and NE directions as a guide, lightly sketch out the reference lines of the shingles. Add a door, windows and a garage. Once again, make sure that each line of these parts corresponds to the directions NW, NE, SW and SE.
10. Complete your new house! How wonderful, but we have to add a little noise - the moving truck will arrive soon, and we haven't installed the new road surface yet. Apply shadows and shading. The darkest is under the roof. Sidewalks and roads are built strictly following the guide lines! I believe in you! This is a very difficult element, but you must cope on your own. You can also sketch some trees and bushes and (why not?) let's redraw our mailbox from lesson 12.
LESSON 13: PRACTICAL TASK
Before you start drawing this yourself, which I think you will be able to do successfully in short time, I want you to redraw this building three times. "What?" - you exclaim in shock and horror. Yes, just redraw it. This is necessary in order to understand how many lines, angles, curves and shapes come together to create an image. This is great practice!
Take a look at the drawings and match their unique style with yours. Each of you does the same lesson, but everyone gets different results. Everyone has their own unique style, vision of the world around them and understanding of the lesson.
Today, our children are mastering creative activities as soon as they begin to walk confidently. First we buy them colored pencils, markers, etc. But when it comes time to learn letters and first awkwardly try to write them, the ability to draw an outline becomes as important as knowing and recognizing colors.
In order for a child to understand what contours are, you need to teach him to draw with a simple pencil. For example, children's favorite plot is a village house. Such a concept as perspective can be omitted; as they grow up, they will figure it out. They can color their “creation” at any time, but first they need to create an outline image together. This article will tell you how to use a pencil step by step.
So how to draw wooden house? You will need pencils, paper, an eraser and your patience.
Drawing the walls and roof
The drawing must begin with the outline of elementary geometric shapes. The first step will be to draw a square, to which we will “attach” the walls and roof. Draw a triangle on top of it. What it will be, isosceles or another, is not so important. And already at this first stage the child recognizes the house, the same one that he has seen many times.
Perspective
Now let's create something similar to perspective. We continue to teach the child this step by step with a pencil. We take the second step - we “attach” another square next to the first one. But on top we no longer draw a triangle, as in the previous case, but a parallelogram. The child may not understand the meaning of this artistic “effect”. You will need to clearly explain how to draw vertical lines and connect them to create a “side view”. Believe me, children grasp such nuances very quickly. A window remains, which is square in shape. In addition to the fact that you are drawing, you can also have a very meaningful and educational conversation about squares, triangles and rectangles, which will be very well remembered.
Creating volume
Pencil step by step and hold, at least for a short time, the child’s attention? At the third stage, we begin to decorate our house. We draw doors that have the shape of a rectangle. We will have a chimney on the roof. Because the young artist asked about how to draw a wooden house; we will paint one wall with a window with stripes imitating boards. Thanks to this, we will get the illusion of volume.
We imitate roof tiles
Now, at the fourth stage, we give the initiative to the child. Let him draw the tiles himself. It doesn’t matter what the roof will look like, “fish scales” or “squares”. The main thing is to carefully “fit” the pattern without going beyond the boundaries of the contour. Dormer window above front door also an important element, it is oval.
Drawing a fence and bushes
You should think in advance about how to draw a house with a pencil step by step, paying attention to the development of the child’s imagination. To do this, you will have to use all your own creative abilities. Your house is almost ready! Now, at the fifth stage, all that remains is to improve the area around it. We draw a fence and bushes behind the house.
Now we will draw a simple house, it is not necessary to detail it so much, you can only draw the main lines. We definitely need a ruler to make the house level.
Step 1. Draw two rectangles, the top one is slightly lower than the bottom one.
Step 2. Draw the bevel of the sides of the roof and additional decorative lines.
Step 3. Erase the horizontal side lines from the rectangle, then draw the door and windows.
Step 4. We draw bars on the windows; we will have an attic on top.
Step 5. We draw a window in the attic and we can finish here, but if you want to draw the whole house, let’s continue. Draw parallel lines on the roofs.
Step 6. Draw the tiles. Let's start with the bottom row. We mark the middle of the house and draw a horizontal line in the very first bottom row. Then we draw to the left, and each time we make a greater slope of the straight line to the right, then we draw to the right, the further we go, the greater the slope of the line to the left. Now let's move on to the second row from the bottom. Each straight line we draw is drawn in the middle between each tile of the first row, do not forget, the closer to the side, the more the line should be inclined in the other direction. We continue to do this up to the very top row inclusive. Then we draw patterns on the sides and roof of the attic. I have painted wavy lines with circles, you can come up with your own pattern, it doesn’t matter.
What You'll Be Creating
Drawing freely from your imagination is great, but not everything can be drawn with free, intuitive hand movement. Artificial objects such as vehicles and buildings are created according to certain rules, and these rules limit our freedom. You can't draw a building by guessing the lines - you have to follow rules, and those rules are determined by perspective.
In this tutorial I will tell you how to draw a house step by step using angular perspective. I will try to explain the whole process to you, and not just tell you what to do.
What you will need
You can use any photo of a house you wish, for example, an image of your own home. We won't copy the original image, but we need some kind of background so we know what we're trying to draw. Therefore, the perspective of the house does not have to be perfect - we will create our own view!
You can draw with any tool, but it's better to use some software for drawing - perspective does not require fine skill, therefore, for this purpose you can successfully use the mouse. If you prefer to draw in a traditional style, then make sure you use large leaf paper, much larger than the intended size of the drawing. And don't forget to use a long ruler!
1. Starting to Draw Perspective
Step 1
Start with the horizon line. When there is something above these lines, you look up. When there is something below this line, then you lower your gaze.
Step 2
We want both sides of the house to be visible: the right side and the front side. They have a common size: this is their height. In angular perspective, height is a standard value that remains perfectly vertical, so we don't need to add any vanishing points for it.
However, it is also important Where we place this height. The center of the horizon line is also the center of perspective. If you place an angular line in the center of the perspective, both sides will be equally visible. If you place it more to the left, the view of the facade will be wider due to the second side. And that's what we need!
The shorter the height in relation to the horizon line, the less critical the distortion.Step 3
Perspective turns parallel lines into converging lines. Where do they converge? Well, that's up to you. The more side view you want to see, the further away it should be vanishing point.
Step 4
Draw the other edge of the facade between both lines. Imagine how long the frontage would be without perspective, and then shorten it according to the angle between the left edge and the ground - 90 degrees will give the full length, and the smaller the angle, the shorter it should be.
Thanks to the distant vanishing point and the relative height of the facade, our corner is wide enough to provide almost full length.Step 5
Now you can join both edges to create full surface front wall. Keep in mind that these two lines are parallel in reality! Everything parallel to them will tend to this vanishing point.
Step 6
It's time for the other side. There is a very simple rule here: the more one side is visible, the less noticeable the other. So we need to move the vanishing point closer.
Step 7
Once again, imagine the full length of this side, and then shorten it to match the angle.
The angle is quite sharp, so we need to shorten the side a lot.Step 8
Close the side shape with two additional lines. Again, these lines are parallel, and anything parallel to them will go in the same direction.
Step 9
Now that we know how to use vanishing points, I'll show you the drawing up close to make the details more visible.
Perspective distorts proportions, so we need to place our leading lines very carefully. It is best to use special universal algorithms to divide the area into equal parts. Let's split the front in half and one third - the porch is about one third long, I think, so it will be comfortable for us.
Standard length makes it easier to draw in perspective, so let's simplify the proportions for our purpose.First, connect the corners of the facade.
Step 10
The diagonals of a rectangle show you its center, even in perspective. So we will divide it into two parts. The midline should be vertical.
Step 11
Once we have the middle lines, we can use them to create the thirds:
Keep the guide lines visible so you can use them later, but without interfering with the final lines of the drawing.
Step 12
The length of the other side seems to be five window openings, so it will be most convenient for us to divide it into five parts. There is also an algorithm for this:
Again, these guide lines should be barely visible.
2. Add Windows and Doors in Perspective
Step 1
We need more guide lines to place the elements correctly on the wall. Since this is a building, you can expect the elements to be in a certain proportion. Once we define it, we can use it in our drawing.
Look at the height of the segments above the windows, below the windows and at the bottom of the wall. Mark them on the corner edge.
Step 2
Draw parallel lines through these points. Do you remember what parallel means here?
Step 3
It's easiest to divide the segments into halves and thirds, so let's assume that the window with all its contours is one-ninth the length of the façade. Divide each third section into thirds to create guide lines for this.
Step 4
The door doesn't have such obvious proportions, so we need to create them ourselves. Connect the two points of the opening...
And draw a vertical line through the intersection of the guide lines.
Step 5
We now have enough guide lines to create the outlines of the windows and door.
Step 6
The actual windows start a little deeper inside the outline. How can we guess their width? Okay, let's create it! Symmetrical "X" lines are very easy to draw...
And they neatly cross our top guide line.
3. Draw the Roof in Perspective
Step 1
The roof of the house in my photo is not simple, but this should not be an obstacle for you! Every roof is subject to the same rules, and some just need more work to apply those rules to them.
Define highest point roofs. You have to think in 3D - you can't just extend one wall vertically and put this point there. This point must relate to both walls at the same time!
The height of the roof is arbitrary, but make sure you make it proportional to your overall vision.Step 2
My roof has a ridge on top. Its width will be a good reference point, but we need to define it first. Again, in order to add any value to our drawing in the future, we must rely on what has already been drawn. For example, draw two diagonals across a third of the side of the window (we can be sure they are symmetrical)...
And draw a line through the point where they intersect with the lowest horizontal guide line.
Step 3
To draw the height of these lines, we need to place them at the same level as middle line. Project multiple lines using guide lines to find the desired location.
Step 4
We know where this skate begins, but we still don't know where it ends. To find this point, additional guide lines are needed. Remember to maintain proportions while building on the base look!
Step 5
Now you can easily draw the outline of the skate.
Step 6
Before we draw the rest of the roof, we need to understand what exactly we want to draw. From the outside, the roof looks like a triangle, and we already have the top of this triangle, so we have to follow this rhythm.
If we extend top part walls towards this line, then we will find the length of the roof (measuring the distance from the wall to the edge).
Now our task is to create several easily repeatable guide lines. It doesn't matter where they are as they create the proportion that is needed every time they are used.
Apply these guide lines to your perspective drawing.
Step 7
To find the actual length of the roof, we need to project it onto the ground.
Step 8
We have the length, but we also need the precise placement of the angles. They are now easy to find!
Step 9
These points are of no use to us since they are on the ground, but it will not be difficult to project them to their desired level.
Step 10
In conclusion, connect the dots!
4. Draw a Complex Roof in Perspective
Our house has its own walls and roof, so it's technically done. But it's boring and it doesn't look anything like the original image! Next, we'll make it more interesting, but keep in mind that we may encounter more high level difficulties. I also assume that you understood the methods we used on this moment, so I may not explain each step in as much detail.
Step 1
The elements on the roof are not randomly placed, and we need to find out. Let's create some repeating guide lines ahead of time: Divide the side of the middle block into eight sections.
Step 2
The porch roof starts at the horizontal center, but not exactly at the center of the roof. Find the exact points you want to use for your guide lines and then project them onto your drawing.
Always pay attention to the placement of elements inside the walls.Step 3
The porch roof appears to be parallel to the rest of the roof. We can easily mark it in a side view drawing, but how can we find it in a perspective view?
As always, we need to create repeating guide lines that will indicate our desired result...
And project them onto the drawing.
Step 4
We know how long the roof is from the side, but we also need to find its width (which, according to the original photo, is slightly longer than the middle third of the front wall). These guide lines should work.
Step 5
Now we need to intersect the guide lines from both quantities to find the angles of the roof. The illustration below may seem confusing because we are so close to the horizon that the guide lines are almost horizontal.
Step 6
Now we have everything we need to outline the small roof!
Step 7
The protruding roof windows will be quite difficult to draw, so feel free to skip them if you feel like you can't.
First, let's add some guide lines on the roof to help us see its surface better. We don't have vanishing points for them, so just repeat their algorithm.
Step 8
We need more guide lines in this inner roof block. Divide it into quarters.
Step 9
We need to know enough to place the base of the window.
Step 10
The window has a triangular roof, so we should mark that as well. It's pretty easy if we stay at the same depth level, right?
Step 11
Now we need to design the window outline into its place on the roof. I told you it would be difficult!
Step 12
The roof of this window protrudes, so we need to project it forward. We're going to use the front wall as a reference point to make it easier to draw.
Make the entire window outline protrude to make measurements easier.
Step 13
The roof has a certain thickness and angle, so they are not easy to design. Use a trick to create them: find guide lines on the outline of the window that automatically create the outline of that roof. It doesn't have to be perfect, just approximate enough.
Step 14
Create another window using the same steps, or draw guide lines along the lines already drawn.
Step 15
We know exactly where the roof starts, so we can easily draw their canopies.
Step 16
The sides of these windows are located inside the roof, but they are also covered by it. The curvature of the roof can be measured, but there is no need for precision - just remember that each line going down should be slightly offset forward (as its back is gradually hidden by the roof).
5. Draw a Porch with Steps in Perspective
Step 1
The porch has symmetrical sides, but we only have a guide line on one of them. Let's create the same on the left side.
Step 2
Use these guide lines to create the outline of a small wall.
Step 3
These walls will be as long as the roof above them, but not as wide. Use an additional guide line to exclude part of the roof from the width of the porch area.
Step 4
Now you can give these walls all the sides.
Step 5
Divide inner side wall by a third - this should be enough to create four steps.
Step 6
The first step is quite flat, so mark it first before adding the other steps. Its height can be arbitrary.
Step 7
Divide two-thirds into 16 parts - four heights and four lengths of each step.
Step 8
Draw the outline of the steps following the guide lines.
Step 9
You now have enough guide lines to draw the steps.
Step 10
The porch wall has a raised part, so we need to draw that as well. It should be easy to measure it with what we already have.
Step 11
There are pillars supporting the roof that rise from the bottom of the wall. I'm going to take the easy route and make them as wide as the wall and steps.
Step 12
Monika Zagrobelna
I"m a Polish artist with a long experience in doing useless, but creative things. Since I realized how bad I was after all these years, I decided to take fate into my own hands and actually study things in order to draw them properly. My tutorials are the result of thorough studies - I hope they help you as they helped me!